Those were exciting times, James. My father, who was a program manager at Rocketdyne, used to say that not a single dollar was sent into space. It was all spent right here on Earth, with high-paying jobs, advances in technology that would have come so much slower (or not at all) without the Space Program. And the people who earned those salaries spent the money locally, buying homes, cars, appliances, services. The money rippled through the economy, benefiting so many others who did not work in the programs. . . .